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Logging and Monitoring

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I want to delete an object on the Cloud Logs's Archive query page

I understand that it is possible to view logs from the archive from the Logs page and Archive query page. However, our request is to delete objects that are not reused from the archive query page. Users are not necessarily familiar with how to u...
3 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

IBM Cloud Logs Agent to support sending logs to Instana Logs

Today, IBM Cloud Logs Agent[1] supports sending logs only to IBM Cloud Logs instance. ICL Agent could support sending logs to Instana Logs[2], too. This idea is to add support for Instana Logs in ICL Agent so clients can have only one agent to sen...
about 2 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

IBM Cloud Logs Routing Agent for Z VSI

IBM will announce IBM Cloud Logs Routing services for logging. IBM Cloud Logs Routing Agent doesnt support Z platform today. Z VSI customers need s390x version of IBM Cloud Logs Routing Agent to connect to their IBM Cloud Logs Routing services. Th...
6 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add 'Replace text' function in LogDNA parsing rule or view template

Useful for when you cannot control the source of the logs but need to replace strings such as UUIDs with human readable names.
7 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 1 Functionality already exists

Add VSI host name to audit logs in IBM Cloud Activity Tracker with LogDNA

Currently only the VSI host IP address is in the log context, however also having the host name in there would make it a lot better when using with alerts. Was requested to post this here by IBM Cloud support.
7 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Warning or error message when Log Analysis ATS ingestion Keys are used.

The use of Log Analysis ATS ingestion keys does not produce the expected outcome and only Log Analysis STS ingestion keys work to allow logs to be sent to both ATS and STS instances. When using the ATS ingestion keys, no logs will come in at all. ...
over 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 5 Not under consideration

Log Analysis increase log volume search limits

There is currently a limitation of up to 10GB of log search / day. As our architecture grows this may be an issue as our daily log ingestion may easily exceed such limit with existing services that we have.
almost 7 years ago in Logging and Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

Log Analysis Service to have multiple indexes

Currently when Loading Kibana from IBM Cloud, we are presented with a default index which translates to our unique UID tenant code.This index is a placeholder for all logs generated from the account, regardless of service. This means that we have ...
almost 7 years ago in Logging and Monitoring 1 Not under consideration